In this forum report, I contend that Jane Jacobs’s Death and Life of Great American Cities can be interpreted as a phenomenology of the city and urban place (Jacobs, 1961/1993). I consider four aspects of the book as they ...

Neuroscience has well established that human vision divides into the central and peripheral fields of view. Central vision extends from the point of gaze (where we are looking) out to about 5 degrees of visual angle (the ...

In this article, I ask what the relationships, interconnections, and environmental wholes of ecology become in a phenomenological perspective. To answer this question, I consider one phenomenon from the natural world—color—and ...

This paper examines ways in which a phenomenological approach might contribute to
space syntax research, drawing on three themes that mark the heart of
phenomenological investigation: (1) understanding grounded in ...

John Sayles is one of America's most successful independent filmmakers, whose works include "Return of the Secaucus Seven" (1980), "City of Hope" (1991), and "Lone Star" (1996). This article examines Sayles' portrait of ...

Phenomenological psychologist Bernd Jager died in Montreal on March 30, 2015, at the age of 83. For many readers of Phenomenology & Practice, Jager was a greatly admired scholar who regularly attended and presented at the ...

This article discusses two contrasting conceptual understandings of place. The approach of analytic relationality interprets places as sets of interconnected parts and their relationships. In contrast, synergistic relationality ...

The purpose of this article is to assess the relationship between elementary school facility age and single-family housing price in the Orlando, Florida metropolitan area. This is a cross-sectional study employing multivariate ...

This review examines the phenomenological approach as it might be used to explore environmental and architectural issues. After discussing the nature of phenomenology in broad terms, the review presents two major assumptions ...